... on short lead times or because they choose to pursue other objectives such as cost reduction by means of reducing their manufacturing cycle times. A step‐by‐step method is proposed based on the analyses of a number of Brazilian “best practice” cases (all manufacturing companies and all part of large multi...

...Billy Ng; Bruce G. Ferrin; John N. Pearson Reviews the literature of purchasing and transportation management to identify factors in the purchasing and transportation processes that influence a firm’s ability to reduce total cycle time. Presents a model of these factors to establish a framework...

... the objective of maximizing profit (but just the minimization of the loss per component, or the maximization of the rate of output which might lead to non‐optimal profit), and used a continuous approximation of the discrete production process. Closed loop control Cycle time Machine set up Sensitivity...

... production”, sometimes synonymous with “Toyotism”, as an industrial model and the impact of socio‐economic and socio‐cultural contexts on manufacturing models and industrial models. Concludes that the Uddevalla plant highlights the paradox that long cycle time work in parallel flow assembly systems...

...Jan C. Fransoo In a changing and more dynamic market of the 1980s, available mathematical programming algorithms on which production planning in process industries was based did not provide the required responsiveness. Although it is suggested in the literature that a variable cycle times policy...